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I. N. PELTENBERGER.

FENCE.

No. 606,527. Patented June 28, 1898.

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ISAAC NEWTON FELTENBERGER, OF CARNEGIE, PENNSYLVANIA.

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QPECIFIUATION forming part of Letters :Patent No. 606,527, dated June 28, 1898.

Application filed August 1 2, 1897, allant 18,020. (no model.) h

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, ISAAC NEWTON FELTEN- moved from engagement with the fence-post,

so as to enable access to be had to a field at any desired point thereof.

The improved fence embodies a novel con struction of post adapted to be formed wholly of metal ancLembodying supporting means when cby it is prevented from sinking and sagging or listing to one side, thus providing for y maintenance of the fence in proper position.

The detailed objects and advantages of the invention will appearin the course of the subjoined description.

The invention consists in an improved sectional fence embodying certain novel features and details of construction, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings, and incorporated in the claims hereto appended.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation showing a section of fence constructed in accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a detail view of one of the fence-panels. Fig. 8 is a sectional View showing the improved fence-post. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the fence-post. Fig. 5 is a plan View of the upper keeperplate. Fig. 6 is a similar view of the lower supporting-plate.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the views.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates one ered by any suitable fabric, barbed wire, as

indicated at 4, or pickets, as may be preferred. In carrying out the present invention each of the end uprights 3 is provided with L-shaped irons 5, each having a depending pintle 6, adapted to enter eyeson the post.

The fence-post (indicated at 7) is in the form of a rod or verticalstandard of any suitable shape in cross-section and provided adjacent to its upper and lower ends with oppositelyprojecting eyes 8, the said eyes being arranged at suitable elevations for receiving the pintles 6 of the panels. At a point intermediate to its ends the post 7 is provided with an abrupt transverse offset. 9, adapted to rest upon the ground, the post being .QX- tended below said offset, as indicated at 10, to enter the ground for a distance which will obtain the necessary purchase of the post in the ground and prevent the same from listing to one side or the other. Adjacent to the offset 9 and extending in alinement with the upper portion of the post 7 is a depending threaded extension 11, upon which is screwed a plate 12, substantially square in plan and having a central opening which is threaded to adapt it to be adj ustably fitted upon the extension 11. This plate 12 is intended to support the post against vertical movement and prevent the same from sinking too far into the ground when the ground becomes moist. The plate 12 may be screwed upward until it bears against the lower side of the offset 9, so that it may rest upon the surface of the ground; but it is preferred to arrange said plate on the extreme lower end .of the extension 11 and bury the same beneath the surface of the ground, where it will form just as effective a support for the post without being exposed to View. After the posts 7 are planted the panels 1 are hung thereon by passing the pintles 6 through the eyes 8, and after the panels are in place retaining plates or keepers 13, having screw-threaded openings in their center, are screwed upon the upper threaded ends 14 of the posts, so as to bear against the upper irons 5 and prevent the upward displacement of the pintles 6 from the eyes 8. The plates 13 are preferably oblong, so as to extend at their ends over the irons 5.

From the foregoing descriptionit will be seen that I have provided a simple and economical construction of fence and that one or more of the panels thereof may be readily detached without tools and without affecting the remainderof the fence, it being onlynecessary to take off two or more of the keeperplates 13. The fence as a whole may be manufactured complete and in sections at the factory. The fence-posts are eflicientlysupported by means of the plates, which may be either on the surface of the ground or buried beneath the surface thereof, and at the same time the posts are entered into the ground sufficiently to prevent thesame from canting to one side or the other. It will also be seen that the posts when the plates 12 are not used may be driven into the ground by striking upon the offset With a suitable sledge.

One of the chief advantages of the invention resides in the factthat any one of the panels may be quickly and readily detached for enabling the farmer to drive from one field to another, and this will be found of great advantage in harvest-time, enabling the farmer to make a short cut to the barn and obviating the necessity of going a roundabout Way in order to pass through the usual gate or dropbars.

Having thus described the invention, What is claimed as new, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a fence, the combination with posts havingoppositely-located eyes, of detachable panels having pendent pintles adapted to be removably fitted in said eyes, and keeperplates threaded upon the upper ends of said posts and adapted to prevent upward displacement of said pintles, substantially as described.

2. A fence-post, consisting of a metal strip bent intermediate to its ends to form a transverse offset and also comprising a pendent extension Which projects downward from the offset and forms a continuation of the upper portion of the post, said extension being threaded, and a plate threaded upon said extension, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. Afence-postbentintermediatetoits ends to form a transverse offset and also comprising a pendent extension below and forming a continuation of the upper portion of the post, and a plate removably fitted upon said extension, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' ISAAC NEWTON FELTENBERGER.

Witnesses:

L. H. WALTER, J. P. FELTENBERGER. 

